The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 43
Thereupon the little monkey said, laughing at his astonishment:
Who acts: little monkey, monkey · What happens: say, laugh, astonish · To what, where: astonishment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little monkey, monkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monkey | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 monkey | amod |
| 4 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughing | punct |
| 7 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 said | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 astonishment | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughing | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little monkey | thereupon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the little monkey not said here | monkey's astonishment | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | astonish | monkey | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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